BLACKHEATH HUNDRED 



BRAMLEY 



witnessed a conveyance of land in Bramley. 9 * John 

 Wintershull was lord in 1340." In 1362 John 

 vested the manor in trustees for himself, his son John 

 and his heirs, and other children and their heirs in 

 succession. 98 John the younger made his will in 

 1396, mentioning his children, Thomas, John, and 

 Joan. 9 *" John had a son Robert," whose son Thomas 

 died seised of the manor in 1 476-7. 100 Robert, son of 

 Thomas, petitioned for the manorial records to be de- 

 livered to him by Elizabeth Wintershull. 101 Robert 

 died in I487, 10 * leaving a son Robert, then eight 

 yean old, 103 who died in 1549, and was succeeded 

 by his son John. John, son of John Wintershull, 104 

 made proof of his age in 1565, but died in I57I. 104 

 He left an infant son William, who afterwards, 

 in 1 60 1, conveyed Selhurst or Wintershull to George 

 Austen, 106 probably for the purpose of a settlement, as 

 Austen was not in possession a few years later. 



William Wintershull was probably a recusant. He 

 was connected with the Lumleys, recusants, to whom 

 he let the manor-house ; and he ultimately conveyed 

 the reversion of the manor to trustees for their benefit. 

 Henry Lumley parted with his interest, and by a 

 series of conveyances the manor passed to George 

 Chandler, who in 1655 conveyed one moiety in 

 possession and one in reversion to his brother 

 Richard. 107 Richard Chandler held a court in 1663. 

 Thomas Chandler his son held a court in 1667, and 

 made a conveyance of the manor in 1671 I08 to John 

 Child, who held a court in 1672. His grandson 

 Charles Child is said to have sold the manor after 

 1723 to Mr. Barrett, father of George Barrett, the 

 owner in i8o8, 109 and it is now in the possession of 

 Mr. George W. Barrett. 



HAM was held by Henry de Guldeford, when he 

 died in 1312 13, of the Prior and convent of Sandle- 

 ford. 110 Ham was connected with the manor and 

 park of Ashurst (see Witley). The keeper of these 

 was accountable for rent of land called ' Hamme,' circa 

 I369-7I. 111 The rent occurs again in 1374 5,"' and 

 in 1439-40 Walter Bedall, keeper of Ashurst Manor 

 and park, took proceedings against Sir Henry Hussey 

 for usurping the profits of Ham. 118 



Ashurst and Frydynghurst seem to be the same 

 estate. The Windsor family bought land in them, and 

 the Fordes from them. 114 Thomas Mellersh was dealing 

 with Hamland in 1574,"' and is said to have owned 

 Nore and Ham Manor, 11 * and to have bought the 

 latter from Forde, of Harting, Sussex. 1 " 



NORE, which with Ham is called a manor, was 

 acquired by George Austen of Shalford, by marriage 

 with Anne, daughter and co-heiress of Thomas 

 Mellersh of Nore. The Mellersh family had held it 

 for some time. George Austen died holding the 

 capital messuage of Nore in 1611, together with 

 Hameland and Unstead Manors. 118 It is still the 



property of the family, and the residence of Colonel 

 Godwin Austen, owner of Shalford Park. 



Rushett Farm was called Marhoks before the 

 Durgats held it in the 1 6th century, 119 and was 

 afterwards in the possession of Joshua Mellersh. 1 " 

 Birtley House was perhaps originally Berkeley, for in 

 1 604 Brian Annesley held ' Burtley,' otherwise Burke- 

 ley. 111 It was held by Henry Foisted, to whose fam.ly 

 it had passed from Thomas Elliott of Yateley. Ralph 

 de Fay, when lord of Bramley, had granted lot. rent 

 from the tenement of William 'of Berkele in 

 Bromlegh ' to the priory of Amesbury. 1 " ' Bromley 

 House in Bromley Street ' was the residence of Dame 

 Joan Pole in l^8. m The house was afterwards 

 claimed by Lawrence Stoughton, to whom it de- 

 scended by various enfeoffments from Drew, brother 

 and heir of Charles Barentyne, son of Dame Joan." 4 

 The church of the HOLrTRlNlTT, 

 CHURCH originally a chapel attached to Shalford, 

 has been grievously injured by several 

 restorations and enlargements. It stands towards the 

 north of the village street, near the corner at the 

 cross roads. The site is level, and the churchyard 

 is prettily planted with trees and shrubs, there being 

 a fine old yew on the north side. It is built of 

 Bargate stone rubble, with dressings of hard chalk in 

 the older parts and of Bath stone in the new. The 

 squat spire is shingled, and the chancel has been 

 re-roofed in slates with very inharmonious effect. 



Until 1850 the plan was cruciform, and consisted 

 of a nave, about 57 ft. by 21 ft., chancel 31 ft. 6 in. 

 by 21 ft., south transept (or Ludlow chapel) about 

 1 7 ft. square, and low tower and spire on the north 

 forming a north transept of about the same dimen- 

 sions. At the west end was a porch, within which 

 was a plain doorway of mid- 12th-century date, to 

 which period the nave seems to have belonged. The 

 head of this doorway, with zigzag moulding, has been 

 rebuilt on modern jambs. The chancel and tower, 

 which still remain, were evidently added in about 

 1210, and the south transept, roofed, with its gable 

 parallel to that of the chancel, in about the middle of 

 the 1 3th century. Both tower and chancel have 

 been much modernized within, but externally, save 

 for the slated roof of the chancel and some modern 

 outbuildings and buttresses, they have been little 

 altered. The chancel has a slight inclination to the 

 north on plan. 



There are three long lancets in the east wall ; the 

 middle one slightly higher, and three in each of the 

 side walls, worked in hard chalk, their internal splays 

 radiating round the head, without scoinson arches a 

 mark of early date in the period. Under the eastern- 

 most lancet on the south side of the chancel is a 

 piscina with a pointed arch, upon the apex of which 

 a fleur-de-lys is carved in relief an ornament of not 



Add. Chart. (B.M.), 14839. 



*" Ct. R. quoted by Manning and Bray, 

 op. cit. ii, 86. 



98 Deed quoted by Manning and Bray, 

 op. cit. ii, 86. 



* Ibid. 



*> See Frenches in Worplesdon. 



100 Chan. Inq. p.m. 17 Edw. IV, no. 48. 



101 Early Chan. Proc. Ixvii, 239. It 

 appears from the petition that Robert the 

 elder had two tons named Thomas, and 

 that Elizabeth was widow of the younger 

 Thomas. 



1M Will. P.C.C. proved 23 NOT. 1487. 



IM Eich. Inq. p.m. 3 & 4 Hen. VII, 

 1059, no. 2. 



104 Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), lixxv, 53 j 

 ljuumc, 133. 



l< " Ibid. 15 Eliz. clxv, 176. 



"*> Feet of F. Surr. East, i Jat. I ; Hil. 

 I Jas. I. 



W Feet of F. Surr. East. 1655. 



l*> Ibid. Mich. 1671. 



ltw Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 87. 



110 Chan. Inq. p.m. 6 Edw. II, no. 4] . 



111 Mins. Accts. bdle. 1010, no. 5. 

 111 Ibid. bdle. loio, no. 6, 7. 



" Pat. 17 Hen. VI, pt i, m. 134 



85 



Feet of F. Surr. Mich. 34 Hen. VIIIj 

 Mich. 3 Edw. VI ; Mich. 2*3 Eliz. 



"' Ibid. Trin. 16 Eliz. 



u * Manning and Bray, op. cit. ii, 87. 



u ' Private inform. 



11H Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), cccicvii, 

 90. 



"' Misc. Bks. (Exch. L.T.R.), 168. 



l *> Chan. Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), ccccUii, $*. 



111 Ibid, cccvi, 149. 



" Maitland, Bracton't Nett Bit. 553. 



l" Star Chamb. Proc. Edw. VI, i, 8, 



" Chan. Proc. (Ser. 2), bdle. 170, no. 

 91. 



